Horst Frenz Prize

The Horst Frenz Prize is awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the ACLA. The Horst Frenz Prize consists of a $300 cash award, complimentary registration to the ACLA Annual Meeting, and a travel reimbursement grant of up to $300 to attend the following year's ACLA Annual Meeting to receive the award in person, as well as publication of the paper in the Yearbook of Comparative Literature.

Nominations of papers for the 2018 Horst Frenz prize are encouraged from all ACLA members who participated in the 2017 Annual Meeting at Utrecht University.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Horst Frenz prize:

Yael Kenan (University of Michigan) for her paper, "'Dialogue in Monologue': Addressing Darwish in Hebrew." (CITATION)

And congratulations to the Honorable Mention winner of the 2017 Horst Frenz Prize:

Ethan Reed (University of Virginia) for his paper, "'I heard that Voice in Troy': Resonance and Entanglement in Walcott's The Odyssey: A Stage Version" (CITATION)

If you heard a graduate student whose presentation at the 2017 conference at Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands seemed to you outstanding, please pass along as much information as possible (name of presenter, paper title, e-mail, etc.) to the ACLA Secretariat via the ACLA's Horst Frenz Prize nomination form. It is helpful to explain why you admire the paper. The deadline for nominations for the 2018 award is July 31st, 2017 at midnight EST.

Previous Frenz prize winners:

Amanda Mazur (Princeton University), for her paper, "Chamoiseau’s Literary Creolization: The Stylistic Potential of a Vernacular". (CITATION)
Honorable Mention: Meg Arenberg (Indiana University), for her paper, "The Disenchantment of the World: Intertextuality and Disillusionment in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Nagona and Mzingile". (CITATION)

Eugenia Kelbert (Yale University), for her paper "Reborn as René: the Interplay of Self and Language in Rilke's Late French and German Poetry" (2011). (CITATION)
Honorable Mention: Bhavya Tiwari (University of Texas at Austin), for her paper "Comparative World Literature in India" (2011). (CITATION)

Sharareh Frouzesh Bennett (University of California - Irvine), for her paper, "The Politics of Appropriation: Writing, Responsibility, and the Specter of the Native Informant" (2008). (CITATION)
Honorable Mention: Kyla Schuller (University of California - San Diego), for her paper, "The Fossil and the Photograph: Capturing the ‘Primitive’ in the Museum and Boarding School." (2008) (CITATION)

Lida Oukaderova (University of Texas at Austin), for "Money, Translation and Subjectivity in Isaak Babel's "Guy de Maupassant" (2003).

Katarzyna Pieprzak (University of Michigan), for "Whose Patrimony Is It Anyway? The Quarrel between Ali Baba's Cave and the National Museums of Morocco" (2002).
Honorable Mention: Joy Ramirez (University of Colorado), for "The Desert of the Real: Las Vegas" (2002).